Jailer Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image ““The prisoner is the jailer's jailer.”” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jailer Prisoner
“Right, that's exactly what I mean by your being both the prisoner and the jailer.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“The best kind of prisoner is one who doesn’t even know he’s in prison.” — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
“..jailer is no man to a prisoner - he is a living door, a barrier of flesh and blood adding strength to restraints of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned — in the very same prison — by the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The Prisoner All right, Go ahead! What's in a name? I guess I'll be locked into As much as I'm locked out of!” — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Theism is a self imposed prison where the jailer and prisoner are one.” — Lance Seivert Copy Share Image
“Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when things begin growing. And we call the evening star Venus." He thought it over. Perhaps having grown up in the country, among pagans like me, helped him understand my bewilderment. "So do we, he said. "But… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The baby, again, the animal, they don't see the difference between what they do now and what will happen because of it. They can't make a pulley, or a promise. We can. Seeing the difference between now… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane trip. But what if there's five hours between your arrival and your connecting flight, or your plane is late arriving and you've missed your connection, or the connecting flight is late, or the staff of another… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned — in the very same prison — by the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Church membership was so important that Paul and Silas baptized the Philippian jailer into the membership of Christ's church at midnight with Paul's back… — Jay Adams Copy Share Image
I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing… — Anonymous Copy Share
Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your jailers. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
